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[Zapadach]

That’s what I was getting at. Perhaps I would be a better shooter if I settled on one type of muzzleloader. I like and shoot all types of muzzleloaders, rifles, pistols, smooth bores, flintlock, percussion and even in lines. (Yeah, I said it. )

I was just wondering if anybody shot only one type, such as all flintlock long rifle or all cap and ball revolvers or all percussion smooth bore, etc.?

These have been interesting comments so far.

Thanks

I said earlier that the rifle I shoot is .40 cal. Smr., however I have other muzzleloaders as well. Right now I am pretty much just concerned with the smr and a smoothbore when I shoot. I do have plans to greatly improve my skills with my 3rd model colt dragoon (Uberti) and my 1858 Remington (Peitta), but cap shortages prevent that from happening. Powder is not a problem.

 

[beardedhorse]

For decades shot targets and hunted with a .54 fullstock convertible. It started life out as flintlock and made conversion to shoot both rock lock and nipple hugger matches. At 12 pounds it is getting heavy to carry in elk woods. Smaller halfstock, caplock is back up rifle. Trade guns, antique double barrel shotgun and newly acquired single barrel shotgun for birds and big game at close range. I do a lot of teaching and re enacting so .60 left hand flint Tulle is in stable of shoulder arms. Fits better in colonial encampments. You didn't mention hand guns - pistols and cap and ball revolvers.

 

[Steel Hayes]

I’ve gotten to the point where squirrel season just isn’t the same with my .45 rifle flint( the head shots usually take the shoulders too), and it doesn’t do well for waterfowl.

After I got it home, I just can’t use anything else. A 24 gauge with #4 shot is amazing and a .575 PRB works for me.
I still have fun plinking with the others, but only one workhorse for me.

 

[Mtman725]

3 CVA mountain rifle's, like the feel and fit a 50 and two 54's.

 

[Coinneach]

Could I keep it to one, geez I don't know.

Two would be much easier, love my 54 long rifle and my 20G fusil, both flinters.

I am a big fan of hawken rifles and love mine, but caplocks just have the same allure anymore.

Now if Kibler comes out with this hawken flint I'll be all over it!

Sadly Jim Kibler won't accept orders from Australia, I've already been in touch with them and they refused.
Something about not wanting to serial number Barrels for our Aussie Customs import requirements.

 

[Bushfire]

Sadly Jim Kibler won't accept orders from Australia, I've already been in touch with them and they refused.
Something about not wanting to serial number Barrels for our Aussie Customs import requirements.

I spoke to him, maybe a couple of months ago and he said he would consider it.

 

[Coinneach]

I spoke to him, maybe a couple of months ago and he said he would consider it.

Well mate if he does go ahead please let me know and I'll order one in the new year.

 

[Bushfire]

Well mate if he does go ahead please let me know and I'll order one in the new year.

I wouldn't hold my breath for the hawken, I'm pretty sure his smoothbore will come out next.

 

[TFoley]

I'm not saying how many guns I have, but I DO have three muzzleloading rifles and a handgun. Having others that are BP-shooters, but NOT muzzleloaders, and even more that are not for discussion here, means that I have many choices of what to and and when.

Like the other posters here who live in UK, we are pretty much limited by law to the number of guns we can actually possess and shoot - it's no use saying any differently. Local restrictions can, and frequently are, inflicted on legal gun-ownership by Chief Constables (CC) who do not share our love for history and the guns that made it all happen. So although, in theory, there is no limit to the number of guns you might have, the CC might impose a 'local exigency' that requires you to build a purpose-made 'gun-room' to house your growing collection. You may not have the space or the inclination to do so, let alone the money, so your non-conformity with the CC's wishes effectively limits the size of your 'collection'. Here in UK, the words 'gun collection' or 'gun collector' ring all kinds of alarm bells in the office of the CC's 'dogs' - the county police HQ Firearms and Explosives licensing department.

We can easily walk into one of the very many specialist gun or militaria stores and walk out with ANY genuine antique firearm ever made, so long as it is a muzzleloader, or of a type for which ammunition is no longer made, if it is an unmentionable.

However, if we want to shoot it, then that, friends, is a kettle of a totally different blanket.

 

[Billy Boy]

There’s an old saying ‘beware the man with one gun, he probably knows how to use it’. This thread is not intended to be a percussion vs flintlock, smooth bore vs rifle or any kind of this vs that discussion.

I am wondering if anyone mainly shoots just one muzzleloader or one type of muzzleloader and what it is. I’ve been thinking about settling on just one muzzleloader or one type in order to get more proficient with it.

What say ye?

Thanks!

Going to a rondy tomorrow hope to sell 4 rifles, a 40 LR convert to percussion- 40 cal, a 36 SMR, perc, a GPR, 54 perc, and a 50 cal Hawken. Built three out of the four, love them just never shoot them. I’m keeping a 62 cal underhammer smooth bore and a 32 perc buggy rifle and a box full of revolvers.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

I wouldn't hold my breath for the hawken, I'm pretty sure his smoothbore will come out next.

I’m in agreement…WoodsRunner, Fusil/Fowler, and then Hawken…so much to look forward too.

 

[Urban Coyote]

One gun? Way to late for me on that one. I will say that when I shot competitively I had two guns I used almost exclusively, a GRRW half stock Leman .54 and Beaver Lodge halfstock
45. I later had Joe Corely built me a Medina style Hawken .50 which I used from then on. I continued to hunt with the Leman as well as the Beaver Lodge.

These days I get my enjoyment from shooting many different muzzleloaders testing their performance. I once dreamed I'd have plenty of time for them all someday but I think I've finally figured out I'm a bit top heavy on the blackpowder end if things. This being said I still can't bring myself to turn loose of them.

 

[deerstalkert]

I was going to list my bunch but there is the wild off chance my bride might see said list! then you bunch would be picking them up in the classifieds cheap and i would be napping under the turf.
suffice it to say, i have 3 flinters under construction right now and a new barrel coming for a Great Plains build. as the wife is mathematically challenged i will say I have 4 percussion and double that for flintlocks.
my goto is a SMR .45 i built this last fall after the kung fu flu. that bug(the building bug) bit me so hard i haven't come up for air since.
coming on tuesday next is a 1840-50 combo rifle shotgun. this will be the first period gun in my BP muzzleloader collection.
my first muzzleloader was a TC Hawken flint around 1970 or so. seems there has always been one in a corner somewhere ever since.

 

[The Appalachian]

I think the saying should say, "Beware the man with a gun, for he likely knows how to use it."

That said, I have my favorites over others, but if they're at home, then the one I'm totin' at the moment is my most favorite should I find use for it.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

I was going to list my bunch but there is the wild off chance my bride might see said list! then you bunch would be picking them up in the classifieds cheap and i would be napping under the turf.
suffice it to say, i have 3 flinters under construction right now and a new barrel coming for a Great Plains build. as the wife is mathematically challenged i will say I have 4 percussion and double that for flintlocks.
my goto is a SMR .45 i built this last fall after the kung fu flu. that bug(the building bug) bit me so hard i haven't come up for air since.
coming on tuesday next is a 1840-50 combo rifle shotgun. this will be the first period gun in my BP muzzleloader collection.
my first muzzleloader was a TC Hawken flint around 1970 or so. seems there has always been one in a corner somewhere ever since.

I once tried the ole, “New?…no I’ve always had this one…”. Nope, my beautiful bride has an eagle eye for details.

 

[deerstalkert]

she asks which ones are male and which are female. then says she is going to separate them as they are multiplying too fast!

 

[DuncNZ]

There’s an old saying ‘beware the man with one gun, he probably knows how to use it’.

I have always interpreted this saying as beware the man with one gun because he doesn't know how to use anything else .

 

[TFoley]

It seems to me that there is some degree of confusion in some households here as to who wears the pants. I'm lucky, in that respect. I met my wife [now of 50.5 years] at an archery club. When we got back to UK we both joined our local gun club, and she shot pistol with a great amount of success until the end of cartridge-shooting handguns here in UK. She never took to BP - way too much like cooking, with all that preparation - plus the cow-fart smell...

 

[Gordoncourtney]

I'm not saying how many guns I have, but I DO have three muzzleloading rifles and a handgun. Having others that are BP-shooters, but NOT muzzleloaders, and even more that are not for discussion here, means that I have many choices of what to and and when.

Like the other posters here who live in UK, we are pretty much limited by law to the number of guns we can actually possess and shoot - it's no use saying any differently. Local restrictions can, and frequently are, inflicted on legal gun-ownership by Chief Constables (CC) who do not share our love for history and the guns that made it all happen. So although, in theory, there is no limit to the number of guns you might have, the CC might impose a 'local exigency' that requires you to build a purpose-made 'gun-room' to house your growing collection. You may not have the space or the inclination to do so, let alone the money, so your non-conformity with the CC's wishes effectively limits the size of your 'collection'. Here in UK, the words 'gun collection' or 'gun collector' ring all kinds of alarm bells in the office of the CC's 'dogs' - the county police HQ Firearms and Explosives licensing department.

We can easily walk into one of the very many specialist gun or militaria stores and walk out with ANY genuine antique firearm ever made, so long as it is a muzzleloader, or of a type for which ammunition is no longer made, if it is an unmentionable.

However, if we want to shoot it, then that, friends, is a kettle of a totally different blanket.

Wait till the new uk legislation goes through in 2023 it t might hit Kranks badly and especially illegal reloaders better not say any more.

Me just a Scorpio pcp these days , I collect a few to hang on the wall , sit in my rocking chair and watch the sun go down. Ha ha ha Muzzle loaders are the way to go At 79 really not to bothered not shot an unmentionable since 2012 my pcp kills rabbits and squirrels to 70 yards what more do I need

Take care I am just a poor pleb not a rich lord with land and estates. Not a gunny country Such is this green and pleasant land

 

[Omahkapi'si]

I have a few but most just shoot the flintlock now.